Max Eggers
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Max Eggers is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological horror film "The Lighthouse" with his brother Robert Eggers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Eggers canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9397174 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Eggers Context triple: [The Lighthouse, writtenBy, Max Eggers]
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A.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
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B.
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is an American author best known for writing the darkly comic children's book series "A Series of Unfortunate Events" under the pen name Lemony Snicket.
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C.
Alex Hirsch
Alex Hirsch is an American animator, writer, and producer best known as the creator of the Disney Channel animated series "Gravity Falls."
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D.
David Greenwalt
David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
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E.
Aaron Guzikowski
Aaron Guzikowski is an American screenwriter best known for writing the acclaimed thriller film "Prisoners" and creating the science fiction series "Raised by Wolves."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Max Eggers Target entity description: Max Eggers is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological horror film "The Lighthouse" with his brother Robert Eggers.
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A.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
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B.
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is an American author best known for writing the darkly comic children's book series "A Series of Unfortunate Events" under the pen name Lemony Snicket.
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C.
Alex Hirsch
Alex Hirsch is an American animator, writer, and producer best known as the creator of the Disney Channel animated series "Gravity Falls."
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D.
David Greenwalt
David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
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E.
Aaron Guzikowski
Aaron Guzikowski is an American screenwriter best known for writing the acclaimed thriller film "Prisoners" and creating the science fiction series "Raised by Wolves."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | The Lighthouse ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological horror
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psychological horror film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Lighthouse ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Max Eggers
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Robert Eggers ⓘ |
| sibling | Robert Eggers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Max Eggers Description of subject: Max Eggers is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological horror film "The Lighthouse" with his brother Robert Eggers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Max Eggers
subject linked to:
Thomas Wake – Willem Dafoe
subject linked to:
Ephraim Winslow – Robert Pattinson